In 835 Kings Road Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the
architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect
Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922 the house was both a social and design experiment and an
avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and '30s. For this project Kuhn
collaborated with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara and
gained access to Schindler's private archives including blueprints letters and notes.
Alongside reproducing some of these for the first time in this book Kuhn reinterprets the
dichotomy between memory and record in a series of color photos and solarized gelatin silver
prints a technique favored by the Surrealists. The enigmatic subject of her solarized pictures
is a fictional ethereal figure inspired by a letter from Schindler to a mysterious woman.
Kuhn's impressionistic photos render this female presence physical even as it seems to be
dematerializing: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record.
